F.N.A.F. | In the Flesh | A.U. | "We Need To Talk About Jackson" | Part 3

In my boss's office, I told Jackson, basically, that "maybe I should have custody of the child," because Jackson and I were pretty close, and I would help him with the kid—me, Jason, and Jason’s girlfriend.

I thought he might need support. I noticed he was having a lot of mental health problem in public. He would sometimes complain about the baby being a girl and how he didn’t really want a daughter; he wanted a son, and that "it wasn’t okay."

How do I put this—this is what he said exactly: "It's not enough that my wife died, but I didn't get the football league star that I wanted." And that left us feeling like he might be blaming his child.

So we had to explain to him that it wasn’t his daughter’s fault. I said, "You know, it's not your child's fault that she died. It's all the doctors' fault.

I mean, if they had followed procedure, washed their hands, stuff like that, then this wouldn't have happened. I don't know—basically, it wouldn't have happened if they had just been careful.

So it's not Cailee's fault. Cailee is completely innocent of all these problems that have erupted in your life."

Present Day, in my boss' office, Jackson immediately replied, without hesitation: "I'm not letting you take my baby, and I know that you all want to take my child. And effectively speaking, no. I mean, I don't know if this is something that erupted in you, but Jason and his stupid girlfriend keep telling me that he thinks I'm too much or that I might be a threat to my own child."

Jackson was livid because Me, Jason and his girlfriend, Meghan, had been talking about taking baby Cailee in only temporarily. We were worried that Jackson would grow to resent Cailee, and due to his erratic behavior, physically abuse the baby. It's not that he was already abusive, he just would randomly scream at strangers for no reason in grief and we didn't trust him around a crying, stressful baby.

And Joe Trotter, my boss, said, "He's not trying to take away your child. What we're concerned about is you've been going through a lot lately, and I think that you might be redirecting your anger primarily towards the birth of your daughter and not the hospital staff.

We're already helping out with the filing of the lawsuit because the staff was very negligent, but we genuinely believe that it might be better if you took some time off of work.

it's going to be paid leave. We think you should take this time to get yourself together and go to the therapy we have set up, because what we're seeing here is a sign that you're not handling this well. No one would, that's why we're doing this."

Jackson just looked at me and said, "okay... I get it..." After a long, awkward pause, he suddenly said something really strange to me. Jackson apologized for... Something... I know what he's talking about.

Jackson just told me, "I am so sorry about what's going to happen to you in the coming 9 months..." He seemed... Genuinely remorseful... Jackson said, "I... Think I just messed over someone that... Genuinely cares about me..."

And I was like, "Okay... that's weird... but what are you about to do in the coming nine months? I didn't have anything to do with your wife's death..."

To be continued...